When will CodeBuild offer nodejs v18 (or higher)?

Question

As the title says.
Highest nodejs runtime currently available is v16, which is quite old. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/runtime-versions.html

I have dependencies with important security updates that I cannot use with nodejs v18 or higher.

Answer

All CodeBuild images use the `n` command to install the Node version.

This command is available to you during the build. The delay is negligible in my experience, and it takes just a few seconds to upgrade Node.

Docs: https://github.com/tj/n

Add this to your Install phase:

```
n install 18
node --version
```

I prefer to do this regardless of the available versions in the image, just to make sure the same Node version is used in all environments.

I use `.nvmrc` file to maintain the version in the project.

Then in every CodeBuild project, I install the exact version this way:

```
n install $(cat .nvmrc)
node --version
```

And if you use [GitHub Actions](https://github.com/actions/setup-node), it [has support](https://github.com/actions/setup-node/blob/main/docs/advanced-usage.md#node-version-file) for that as well:

That way, I just need to change the version in one place.

When will CodeBuild offer nodejs v18 (or higher)?

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